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maternal education. Increasingly, higher-SES children spend less time with their parents and more time in the care of others …
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childhood education falls short of sufficiently answering fundamental questions about what works for whom and why. A tighter …
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randomized to receive a new preschool and parent education program focused on cognitive and non-cognitive skills (CogX) or to a … control group that did not receive preschool education. In addition to a typical academic year (9 month) program, we also … Kindergarten. Both programs, including the shortened version, significantly improved cognitive test scores by about one quarter of …
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provide more cognitive stimulation to children with higher education polygenic scores. This pattern varies by socioeconomic …
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support the claim of substantial economic benefits from preschool education programs. Previous studies of the rate of return …
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In an effort to enhance the quality of early childhood education (ECE) at scale, nearly all U.S. states have recently …
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This paper organizes and synthesizes the literature on early childhood education and childcare. In it, we go beyond …
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Past research has demonstrated that positive increments to the non-cognitive development of children can have long-run benefits. We test the symmetry of this contention by studying the effects of a sizeable negative shock to non-cognitive skills due to the introduction of universal child care in...
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Large systematic differences in young children's home learning experiences have long-term economic consequences. Many parenting programs place significant demands on parents' time and inundate parents with information. This study evaluates the effects of READY4K!, an eight-month-long...
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We study differences in the time parents spend with girls and boys at preschool ages in Canada, the U.K. and the U.S. We refine previous evidence that fathers commit more time to boys, showing this greater commitment emerges with age and is not present for very young children. We next examine...
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